Heatwaves and human sleep: Stress response versus adaptation
The World Meteorological Organization considers a heatwave as “a period of statistically unusual hot weather persisting for a number of days and nights”. Accompanying the ongoing global climate change, sharp heatwave bouts occur worldwide, growing in frequency and intensity, and beginning earlier in the season. Heatwaves exacerbate the risk of heat-related illnesses, hence human morbidity and mortality, particularly in vulnerable elderly and children. Heat-related illnesses present a continuum from normothermic (prickly heat, heat edema, heat cramps, heat tetany) to hyperthermic syndromes (from heat syncope and heat exhaustion to lethal heat stroke).
Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - Category: Neurology Authors: Alain Buguet, Manny W. Radomski, Jacques Reis, Peter S. Spencer Source Type: research
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